Before Danny delivered the food to Lux, he and Admiral Bock had planned something.
He slammed his hands on the table and said, "We must eliminate any threat, and to be specific, we must kill Lux Aeterna. I don't care who she was; she is a god-human who will eventually lose her humanity and kill without any sense of guilt. I have fought two of her kind, and they are undoubtedly monsters and impossible to be called human. Their past selves died the moment that star appeared. So, I command you, Captain Danny Bazarkos, to kill her!" Admiral Bock commanded.
Hearing this, Danny felt a strange feeling. He thought,
"Even though I only met her a few days ago, and she is undoubtedly a god-human, I feel sympathy towards her. The moment I saw her crying and terrified, that behavior showed she is still human, capable of fear and emotion."
His heart pounded, and he hesitated to answer. But he had no choice but to obey.
"Yes, Sir!"
He used a drug that could kill instantly and painlessly. He put it in her food.
After Danny gave her the food, Lux Aeterna breathed heavily after vomiting. Tears welled in her eyes. She sat on the floor near the bathroom door. Her body felt numb; she could only feel her thoughts.
"What's happening to me?"
Memories flooded her mind: her father playing with her, her childhood, enjoying the beautiful weather. She smiled; her heart felt peaceful, worry-free.
But she didn't notice her breathing becoming slow and heavy. She only enjoyed the past, never considering the present.
While she was in this horrible situation, Danny was outside, regretting his actions, feeling helpless. He knew there was no cure once she ate the drug. He waited outside, expecting to retrieve her corpse. His thoughts were confused.
"Is this what I want? There must be a better option! No, there isn't. This is right; anyone would do the same. Yes, that's true; this is what we are...this is what it means to be human. I'm so sorry, Lux, may you forgive me in the afterlife." He tried to convince himself he was right.
Justifying oneself is how humans reason and live the life they want.
Outside the building, people were talking:
"Did you hear the admirals are planning to build a spaceship to transfer us to a different planet?" they murmured.
Others said, "That would be great rather than living on this planet, covering our faces with spacesuits."
This became their topic.
While they talked and others worked, a massive explosion showered them. An unexpected event.
They couldn't react quickly; the explosion's fire engulfed them. Iron fell, debris turned to dust, body parts splattered, and screams filled the air.
From the ashes, a figure emerged: a bright, white, floating body. Its glowing eyes showed sadness. It screamed, a sound that annihilated the surrounding structures, leaving only a vast, clean ground. The bodies, blood, destroyed debris, iron walls, machinery, and large buildings vanished.
Before this catastrophe, while Lux was dying, Danny couldn't stop himself from going inside. He saw her on the floor, almost unconscious.
He knelt, held her hands, and said, "I'm sorry."
These words reached Lux's heart. She held his face.
In her thoughts:
"You evil! I will never, never forgive you all!" Anger boiled in her heart, fueling her desperation to reach his neck and strangle him.
But to Danny, her strength felt light, harmless. Her eyes barely stayed open. Then, she saw a light in her darkening vision. Her hands glowed, and Danny couldn't escape her grip.
Miraculously, she stood, her eyes closed, her body turning white. Her hair floated; she even lifted Danny.
A voice approached from outside, shouting, "Danny! Get out of there! She's lost her humanity!" It was Admiral Bock's voice—the last Danny heard.
"Dad...this is the payment for what we did to him...and to her," Danny's last words, spoken with difficulty.
Admiral Bock arrived late, finding Danny dead on the floor. He charged at Lux, his dark blade raised. He stabbed her in the chest, but the moment her eyes were fully white, she roared, a powerful energy surge evaporating his sword and himself. This brought destruction and complete annihilation to the last survivors of humanity. Then, she destroyed Earth with her godly powers; she became a destroyer.
She had lost her humanity; the only thing she could do was think and act without emotion. She was now a walking catastrophe.
Humans are human because we are weak, with human characteristics and weaknesses. But the moment you lose those weaknesses and limitations, you are no longer human.
That is the story of my mother. How I was born is irrelevant. This is my story, not hers. She is the reason I live, but I am not like her.
I am who I am.